A mostly serious look at the latest trends in the UFO phenomenon, with only a little "tongue in cheek":
The latest trends in the UFO phenomenon imply that the UFO "pilots" are highly intelligent and masters of human psychology. It looks as if they have decided that having these craft appear and ramping up their appearances over a number of months or years will lessen the total culture shock. So, they introduce sporadic appearances of smaller craft that could be mistaken for human craft initially: enough to be reported as strange in the news, but nothing too wild. These things are possibly deliberately mimicing the latest human aircraft developments - in this case the current large scale spread of "drone" technology. Over time, more craft, more locations, more often, longer periods of time in the air, slowly appearing in daylight hours with progressively larger craft eventually performing more amazing feats that cannot possibly be done by our current technology.
I think this is a likely scenario. What is definitely not likely at all is that all the best current and past UFO sightings and encounters have natural explanations such as "swamp gas", hallucinations, manifestations of the collective unconscious, etc.
The following attempts to as dispassionately as possible examine all the most likely different possible implications of the actual history of UFO encounters, and discloses some best case possibilities for humans, and some disastrous ones also. As already mentioned, this latest wave of sightings may imply that the ETs are adapting their approach to humanity so as to lessen as much as possible the "culture shock" of their arrival, and this fits the latest trends in the UFO/UAP sightings, with UFO vehicles deliberately mimicing and resembling drones, which we are ourselves developing and deploying in large numbers, and fits the hypothesis that the aliens are fairly altruistic toward humanity. If they were hostile, with their technology thousands to millions of years ahead of us they could easily have overwhelmed humanity, immediately, wiped out our weapon systems, and enslaved us or killed us or even eaten us (in the very worst but most unlikely scenario).
This last possibility reminds me of the old story that once humans discover from the remains of a crashed saucer what looks like a sort of manual, and eventually translate it, to only discover that it says it is a cookbook and restaurant waiter's guide, with the instructions "to serve man". That can be taken two different ways, unfortunately.
Another unpleasant possibility is that, as evidenced by the large variety of differently shaped UFOs displayed to humanity over at least the last 80 years (saucers, discs, cylinders, large triangles, etc , and also encounters with different kinds of "pilots", there may be several different races or species of these entities, with perhaps conflicting motivations and plans regarding humanity. Unfortunately, that scenario allows for the possibility that at least one of these different UFO groups of pilot entities do have disastrous plans for humanity and that there is conflict going on between different groups of UFO entities on how to deal with humanity. Then, our fate will depend on the outcome of this conflict between races or species from different planetary systems in the Galaxy.
The latest trends in the UFO phenomenon imply that the UFO "pilots" are highly intelligent and masters of human psychology. It looks as if they have decided that having these craft appear and ramping up their appearances over a number of months or years will lessen the total culture shock. So, they introduce sporadic appearances of smaller craft that could be mistaken for human craft initially: enough to be reported as strange in the news, but nothing too wild. These things are possibly deliberately mimicing the latest human aircraft developments - in this case the current large scale spread of "drone" technology. Over time, more craft, more locations, more often, longer periods of time in the air, slowly appearing in daylight hours with progressively larger craft eventually performing more amazing feats that cannot possibly be done by our current technology.
I think this is a likely scenario. What is definitely not likely at all is that all the best current and past UFO sightings and encounters have natural explanations such as "swamp gas", hallucinations, manifestations of the collective unconscious, etc.
The following attempts to as dispassionately as possible examine all the most likely different possible implications of the actual history of UFO encounters, and discloses some best case possibilities for humans, and some disastrous ones also. As already mentioned, this latest wave of sightings may imply that the ETs are adapting their approach to humanity so as to lessen as much as possible the "culture shock" of their arrival, and this fits the latest trends in the UFO/UAP sightings, with UFO vehicles deliberately mimicing and resembling drones, which we are ourselves developing and deploying in large numbers, and fits the hypothesis that the aliens are fairly altruistic toward humanity. If they were hostile, with their technology thousands to millions of years ahead of us they could easily have overwhelmed humanity, immediately, wiped out our weapon systems, and enslaved us or killed us or even eaten us (in the very worst but most unlikely scenario).
This last possibility reminds me of the old story that once humans discover from the remains of a crashed saucer what looks like a sort of manual, and eventually translate it, to only discover that it says it is a cookbook and restaurant waiter's guide, with the instructions "to serve man". That can be taken two different ways, unfortunately.
Another unpleasant possibility is that, as evidenced by the large variety of differently shaped UFOs displayed to humanity over at least the last 80 years (saucers, discs, cylinders, large triangles, etc , and also encounters with different kinds of "pilots", there may be several different races or species of these entities, with perhaps conflicting motivations and plans regarding humanity. Unfortunately, that scenario allows for the possibility that at least one of these different UFO groups of pilot entities do have disastrous plans for humanity and that there is conflict going on between different groups of UFO entities on how to deal with humanity. Then, our fate will depend on the outcome of this conflict between races or species from different planetary systems in the Galaxy.
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